Where can I get ASP MVC hosting?

Question

I really need some ASP MVC CTP 4 hosting. Is anyone doing this? I can't believe there is no-one willing to take my money just because it's in beta.

This is a customer requirement, so why is each host I ask just saying 'we can't do that'?

Answer 1

You don't need to install the MVC Libraries into the GAC, so any .NET 3.5 Host can support ASP.NET MVC.

The only trick is that your routes will have to have .aspx in them to invoke ASP.NET, since they probably won't setup the HTTPHandler in IIS for you.

EDIT:

This link shows how to set it up on any shared host:

http://forums.asp.net/p/1239943/2294813.aspx

Answer 2

@Jonathan - Ok sounds promising. Where in the route? At the controller like this?

routes.MapRoute(
            "Default", // Route name
            "{controller}.aspx/{action}/{id}", 
            new {controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = ""} 
            );

EDIT - Ok, yes like that. Thanks for the pointer Jonathan.

Answer 3

I know you can do it on Mosso

Answer 4

Many hosts will also set up a wildcard route to ASP.NET for you so you won't need the .aspx suffix.

Answer 5

I have a freehosting on qsh.eu and I use ASP.NET MVC on my test apps, without any intervention of my hoster.

Answer 6

There're 2 web hostings you can consider -

Arvixe and webhost4life!

With my experience, Arvixe is a cheaper asp.net web hosting and webhost4life is better for the client service support.

Answer 7

Webhost4life is terrible, they used to be great but recently switched over to some new platform and basically things have gone downhill fast. I am planning to move away from them as soon as I can.

I will be moving to http://www.arvixe.com/

UPDATE: I have moved to arvixe.com and so-far am very pleased. I did manage to get a response from webhost4life and they flat-out refused to setup the .NET wildcard mapping stating that *.mvc or *.aspx extensions would need to be used on their servers. Hope that helps, -fs